Local Resources

In Chaffee County, visit ChaffeeResources.com.

National Resources

GLAAD www.glaad.org — Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. “GLAAD works with print, broadcast and online news sources to bring people powerful stories from the LGBT community that build support for equality.”

GLSEN www.glsen.org — Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. “Every day GLSEN works to ensure that LGBT students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment.”

Forge — http://forge-forward.org/ is a progressive organization whose mission is to support, educate and advocate for the rights and lives of transgender individuals and SOFFAs (Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies).  They have recorded webinars on many different issues related to trans* individuals and SOFFAs.

It Gets Better Project — www.itgetsbetter.org — “The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.”

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — http://www.thetaskforce.org/“The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up.” They also run Creating Change the “largest annual gathering of LGBTQ activists, organizers, and leaders within the LGBT movement” in the US.

PFLAG
www.pflag.org
“Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies United with LGBT People to Move Equality Forward.”

Transgender Law Center
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
“The largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.”

The Trevor Project 
 www.thetrevorproject.org
“Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth.”

The “Not All Like That” (NALT) Project
http://notalllikethat.org
videos of (awesome) Christians (mostly families) explaining how they fully support LGBTQ people and that being Christian shouldn’t mean being anti-gay.

Religious Institute
http://www.religiousinstitute.org
“A multifaith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual health, education, and justice in faith communities and society.”

National Center for Transgender Equality
https://transequality.org/
“The nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.”